is this article making a point or not?

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December 24, 2021, 10:55 AM

signewt

is this article making a point or not?

https://abcnews.go.com/US/12-m...=81466453&stream=top

I've scanned thru it a couple times & don't know quite what to make of it.

December 24, 2021, 11:07 AM

Strambo

I skimmed it, seems like it’s reporting the news as opposed to an editorial. It lists the stats and has comments from a number of sources about possible causes and contributing factors. Less LE officers, fewer arrests, stress of Covid economic factors etc.

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December 24, 2021, 12:20 PM

Flash-LB

I think the article's just laying out what it perceives as the facts.

Here's a question. What do all the cities named in the article have in common?

December 24, 2021, 12:20 PM

Rey HRH

I don't know what to make of it. At first, I thought his point is that gun control laws work being that California isn't on the list while AZ and TX is prominent but I see New York listed.

Any report about annual homicides where Chicago's 739 homicides (which leads the nation) but doesn't make the list just because it's still under the 1970 record of 974 homicides is skewed.

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December 24, 2021, 12:26 PM

Skins2881

I've read a number of iterations of the same article. They all fail to mention the root cause. Democrat/progressive policies:
BLM/Antifa, defund the police, revolving doors at the jailhouse, lack of enforcement of gun laws (or any laws for that matter), activist DAs, and diversion programs.

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December 24, 2021, 12:27 PM

smschulz

Even though anyone can parse statistics to their favor if the gist is that crime is up?
It is and we all already know why.

It's kind of like preaching to the choir here for all of us as we already know the score.
Perhaps it will get through the rest of the uneducated.

December 24, 2021, 01:34 PM

Sig209

quote:
Originally posted by Skins2881:
I've read a number of iterations of the same article. They all fail to mention the root cause. Democrat/progressive policies:
BLM/Antifa, defund the police, revolving doors at the jailhouse, lack of enforcement of gun laws (or any laws for that matter), activist DAs, and diversion programs.

This

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Proverbs 27:17 - As iron sharpens iron, so one man sharpens another.

December 24, 2021, 03:12 PM

Flash-LB

quote:
Originally posted by Sig209:
quote:
Originally posted by Skins2881:
I've read a number of iterations of the same article. They all fail to mention the root cause. Democrat/progressive policies:
BLM/Antifa, defund the police, revolving doors at the jailhouse, lack of enforcement of gun laws (or any laws for that matter), activist DAs, and diversion programs.

This

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Exactly. That' what all these cities have in common.